Pennsylvania State Education Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 230961125
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Harrisburg, PA, US
- Phone
- (800) 944-7732
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $85,684,519
- Expenses
- $76,234,605
- Assets
- $264,393,821
- Liabilities
- $34,756,753
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
60 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AARON F CHAPIN (PRESIDENT)
- JEFFREY D NEY (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JAMES G VAUGHAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- RICHARD W ASKEY (FORMER PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JAMES G VAUGHAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $363,511 total reported compensation
- GREGORY J MOLL (REGION FIELD DIRECTOR): $301,615 total reported compensation
- BROOK E WITT (REGION FIELD DIRECTOR): $301,502 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To be a community of education professionals who make a difference in the lives of students every day.
What it reported doing in 2024
Legal services: the legal division is responsible for providing legal services to psea's approximately 177,000 members and to over 1,000 local affiliates. Psea represents locals with respect to bargaining and contract issues and represents members in all employment-related matters in arbitration or before state agencies. In the 2024-2025 fiscal year, the division collectively opened and worked on over 800 cases. In addition, the legal division advises and represents psea as an organization, undertakes litigation as needed on behalf of psea, its locals, and members on matters of statewide importance involving constitutional or statutory rights, and coordinates a number of programs including the educators employment liability program and the association's liability insurance policy.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 92% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 96
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 81.2%; rating input score 81; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 93.2%; rating input score 93; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.47; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.4%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 41 of 44 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $364K · 60 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.4M reported
- Consistency: 14 of 15 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 68 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 15 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.